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Posted Wednesday, May 25, 2016 at 12:50 PM to Announcements. Comments: 0

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We invite proposals for the 2016 WIDE-EMU Conference, a free, one-day event on October 15, in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Please help us circulate the call widely. The complete call and details about the conference are online at https://sites.google.com/site/wideemu16/.

Phase 1--Propose--has just begun and continues through August 31. We are asking for proposals that will respond to the conference's framing question: What does writing want?

As you will see on the web site and proposal submission form, we're asking for titles/ideas for three kinds of presentations:

  • Talk: much like a typical conference presentation, only short-form. Propose a brief paper, a roundtable discussion, a panel, etc. Individual talks should not exceed ten minutes.
  • Do: a demonstration or a workshop. Propose a session focused on the "how to" related to a software application or pedagogical approach.
  • Make: produce something (or the beginning of something). Propose a session in which participants will "make" a web site, a lesson plan, a manifesto, a syllabus, etc.

During Phase 2--Respond--we'll be asking proposers to expand their proposed ideas with something online to share ahead of the face to face meeting on October 15. What exactly this "something online" looks like is highly flexible: a blog entry, a slidedeck, a podcast, a video, etc. You could also think of this as a teaser or a preview for your session and a few of its key provocations.

The face-to-face conference will be on October 15, 2016 at Eastern Michigan University. We will announce the featured plenary speaker/activity later this summer.

Please visit the site at https://sites.google.com/site/wideemu16/, submit a proposal, and plan to attend. If you have any questions about the proposal process or the conference itself, please reach out to Derek Mueller at derek.mueller@emich.edu. We hope to see many of you of this fall.

Posted Sunday, July 12, 2015 at 10:00 AM to Announcements. Comments: 0

The Eastern Michigan University Written Communication Program and the Michigan State University Writing and Digital Environments Research Center invite you (faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, teachers, community members, anyone interested) to propose ideas for the fourth WIDE-EMU, a free (un)conference on Saturday, October 10, 2015 in East Lansing, Mich. We seek proposals that engage the framing question for this year's event:

Is ____ writing?

What counts as writing? The definition of what we consider to be writing is constantly shifting, evolving, and expanding. Writing classrooms now ask students to work with social media, web design, data visualization, image manipulation, and a myriad of other artifacts and practices. The question is: can we call any of those activities writing? How does writing relate to audio, visual, digital, and multimodal composing processes? How do we situate writing in the classroom, especially when students increasingly engage in the production of artifacts that feature a range of modes (textual, visual, sonic, haptic, digital, and more)? Is writing different from or similar to making? Should multimodal making be considered writing? What are the institutional and disciplinary pressures for claiming writing? Who has the agency to claim what is/isn't writing? What are the implications of assigning writing to all forms of making? What discourses do we construct and perpetuate by claiming the act of writing? In an age of digital consumption and production, how do we prepare students for complex work that goes far beyond the act of writing? Learn more about WIDE-EMU '15 at https://sites.google.com/site/wideemu15/.

Posted Tuesday, September 2, 2014 at 5:19 PM to Announcements. Comments: 0
Becky Morrison, second-year doctoral student at Virginia Tech University and 2013 graduate of EMU's Written Communication MA program, recently published a podcast review of Multimodal Literacies and Emerging Genres, a collection edited by Carl Whithaus and Tracy Bowen (U Pittsburgh P, $29.95). The collection was also mentioned in Liz Losh's August 21st presentation to the EMU's First-year Writing in the context of the program's explicit emphasis on multimodal composing.

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